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Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
This is a story about McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, and the professor who admitted he didn't care. Fina...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
I've taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I've redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
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I need to stop being boring
This week, I felt pretty depressed and lost my motivation and focus. After launching Space4 , I got some signups from HackerNews , but no one was really using the app. Including myself.
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DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
Oh man, this is good! You’re looking at the first DB-19 connector to be made in the 21st century:
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A personal story about 10× development
During the last few days there has been an ongoing Twitter storm about 10× developers. And like all the ones before it (and all the future o...
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Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
After the wave of layoffs at Meta (previously known as Facebook) in November of 2022, I recall messages in the Facebook group for former employees discussing how to handle elements of the redundancy process, like if it was possible to max out retirement saving contributions, or spending gym benefits whilst
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The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
Technical Web Development Blog
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No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
No, I don’t want to subscribe to your newsletter. No, I don’t want to complete a short survey. And no, I don’t want to become a member. … Is that text in the background? There is content on this page, right? Does the escape key work? Why doesn’t the escape key work? Where’s the close icon? If this is it, why isn’t my…
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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m , a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon . As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a…
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The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
A Hackernews comment introduces a new character
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Build your career on dirty work
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.
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How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
Many browsers today are gigantic resource hogs, which are basically VMs for various web applications. On the other hand, Links is a HTML browser. It is not able to do everything. It allows me to avoid most distractions and control the content-experience. The goal of this exercise is not to force anyone to use this…
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For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
Every now and then I hear some ridiculous things about the equals symbol. Some large subset of programmers—perhaps related to functional programmers, perhaps not—seem to think that = should only and ever mean “equality in the mathematical sense.” The argument usually goes, Functional programming gives us back that…
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Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
Everyone 1 and their dog 2 loves Git. I know I do. It works, it’s efficient, it has a brilliant data model, and it sports every feature under the sun . In 13 years of using it, I’ve never found myself needing a feature it didn’t have. Until recently.
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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story tha…
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An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice
Anyone can build their own amusement park here, or find one that's just right for them. A city of parks by Levan Kvirkvelia.
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Desktop Linux Hardening (2022)
Linux is not a secure desktop operating system. However, there are steps you can take to harden it, reduce its attack surface, and improve its privacy. Before we start… Some of the sections will include mentions of unofficial builds of packages like linux‑hardened, akmod, hardened_malloc, and so on. These are not…
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Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.
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Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code
A step-by-step guide to making a landing page with AI and no-code tools: AI-written code and copy, fonts, colour palettes, images, audio and video.
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My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
This article was written by a human, for humans. Phantomdrive is now available from the Rootkit Labs shop. Many places don’t respect privacy …
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Sorry, we can't join your Slack
A positive way of looking at the value we provide for our clients.
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Ideas That Changed My Life
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
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Should you self-host Google Fonts?
A deep dive into the performance implications of using Google Fonts (good and bad) and whether self-hosting is better.
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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
My personal website, portfolio, and blog.
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A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app
Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.
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Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates
Apple released macOS Big Sur 11.1 on 14 December. Although yesterday it finally posted standalone installers for the two concomitant security updates to Catalina and Mojave, no standalone updaters …
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